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...back to February when the threat of administration censorship of the paper led the editors to demand that students be allowed to control the paper. Threat of a walk-out at that time led Case-who is also publisher of the News-to agree to set up a "Blue Ribbon" committee to study possible means of reorganizing the paper to give students more control...
Velvet Vest. Her statuesque beauty was set off with enormous hats from which dangled a ribbon that the French then called "Suivez-moi, jeune homme" (Follow me, young man). Soon she was wearing a velvet vest embroidered with 240 diamonds. Admirers gave her gilded carriages and chateaux, buckets of jewels, and a mansion on the Champs-Elysées. A U.S. millionaire invited Otero to a simple supper of caviar and oysters-in each oyster lay a pearl. By 1894 she was so rich that she spurned an offer of 10,000 francs for one night, and the luckless...
...midfield stripe of South Viet Nam, balanced like a football waiting for the kickoff. From the Kannack compound and its adjacent dirt airstrip, some 400 American and montagnard defenders oversee dense jungle, slippery slopes and the crumpled folds of ravines ideally suited for enemy mortar attack. A single ribbon of road leads south toward embattled Route 19, the east-west highway where government convoys are frequent prey for Viet Cong ambushes. Last week the Communists hit Kannack...
...Lodge lamented. "The great tragedy of our age is the inability of free men to create one well-rounded and essentially spiritual view of life by harnessing toward common goals their talents. Sometime, somehow, somewhere, power and responsibility must meet." He endorsed suggestions for the creation of a blue-ribbon "com mittee" representing the U.S., the United Kingdom and the Common Market to lay the groundwork for "true free-world development...
...catch a prince, like Rapunzel, or to avoid a taxing situation, like Godiva, the girl who took down her hair in days of yore never thought twice about the trouble involved. But then, why should she? She had nothing to undo but a braid or a ribbon and presto, crowning glorysville! It is only the modern maid who spends the better part of her days putting up her hair and is not about to take it down until she's good and ready...